Jim Caviezel Quotes

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

There's just no substitute for the truth.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Truth is a big concept.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.